Now, it’s getting flat-out macabre.That would be the continuing swirl of attention the health of Apple icon Steve Jobs has been getting. Rumors of his impending demise have been popping up periodically since the too-thin crisis of the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and look that they won’t stop until it actually comes true.My grandmother used to have a perfect rejoinder for this kind of funeral-chasing behavior, which was prevalent among her gang of Italian sisters, who–whenever anyone caught a cold–predicted the worst outcome: “Don’t be a crepe-hanger.”This time, more rumors surfaced yesterday in Gizmodo, curiously a week before the MacWorld at which he is famously not appearing. The site used a single–yes, that’s right–source saying his illness and not Apple’s business troubles with the conference’s organizer, IDG, was the reason for his pull-out.The rumor, of course, sent Apple (AAPL) shares into a tailspin for the day, before others–such as CNBC’s Jim Goldman–posted just-as-strong refutations of the Jobs-Is-On-His-Last-Legs stories. Blogger Robert Scoble even talked to a worker at a yogurt store that Jobs frequents and got a health report (good!). Oh, dear–yogurt workers as medical experts? What’s next? Brain surgery consultation from the Starbucks barista? This is what we’ve descended to? It has to stop, because the fact of the matter is that Jobs’ health is still nobody’s business, as it has not been throughout this bizarre obsession with one man’s personal issues. In post in late July, the last time this issue surged, I wrote: And after listening to all of the debate about it–mostly indignant declarations by the media, making their case mostly by wheedling milder indignant declarations from stock analysts and corporate tsk-tsk outfits–I have concluded that what is ailing Jobs is exactly no one’s business.Even if his every breath is critical to th...